Sandals for the king
My latest project on ancient Egyptian beadwork focuses on the research of how a pair of small beaded sandals, found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, were made 3.300 years ago. This work will include the analysis of the ancient beading craft and the description of the beading pattern. In the coming months, I will then be making reconstructions of these objects for an exciting new exhibition on ancient footwear in the Bata museum in Toronto (Canada). By making these reconstruction
Ancient beadwork in the Neues Museum in Berlin
Okay, since our website www.wearableheritage.com is no longer a blog and we do wish to write something every once in a while, we think that these notes of some of our daily work might fill the gap. This is a first try-out; see if any wearable heritage lovers will be able to find it, and ‘like it’ of course. Last year’s trip to Berlin for instance. I went in spring with my dear friends Andre Veldmeijer en Erno Endenburg to the Neues Museum to study the ancient Egyptian beadwor
Beadwork & Hair at the Petrie Museum
Last week, I paid a (research) visit to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie). If you know the place, I don’t have to tell you about the enormous amount of artifacts this collection houses. It is a wonderful small museum of UCL, and the displays are fantastic as well. If ever in London, you should definitely pay it a visit. I went there to look at the hair samples and the beadwork in the collection. It’s not often that, as
